Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue, formally known as the Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City. It is commercial for much of its length, with its traffic running uptown. It begins below Canal Street in Tribeca and ends to the south of Central Park, running for 3.7 miles. Sixth Avenue was commissioned in March 1811, and it segment north of Central Park was renamed to Lenox Avenue in 1887 and to Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987.